Table 2.
Respondent characteristics.
| N (%) | |
|---|---|
| Male gender | 272 (48.8%) |
| Age | |
| 18–40 | 189 (33.9%) |
| 41–64 | 276 (49.5%) |
| 65–79 | 76 (13.6%) |
| 80+ | 17 (3.0%) |
| Education | |
| Less than high school | 69 (12.4%) |
| High school | 174 (31.2%) |
| Some college | 145 (26.0%) |
| Bachelor’s degree or higher | 170 (30.5%) |
| Race | |
| White, non-Hispanic | 427 (76.5%) |
| Hispanic | 54 (9.7%) |
| Black, non-Hispanic | 42 (7.5%) |
| Other | 35 (6.3%) |
| Marital status | |
| Married | 291 (52.2%) |
| Never married | 139 (24.9%) |
| Divorced | 61 (10.9%) |
| Widow | 30 (5.4%) |
| Living with partner | 28 (5.0%) |
| Separated | 9 (1.6%) |
| Household with low income (<3 times the poverty threshold) | 275 (49.6%) |
| Households with Internet | 372 (66.7%) |
| Type of insurance | |
| Private insurance | 276 (52.2%) |
| Medicare/SCHIP | 90 (17.0%) |
| Do not have health insurance | 63 (11.9%) |
| Other | 59 (11.2%) |
| Medicaid | 41 (7.8%) |
| Parent of a child | 333 (62.6%) |
| Relationship to child that the respondent thought about for scenarios | |
| Son/daughter | 187 (35.8%) |
| Grandchild | 125 (23.9%) |
| Niece/nephew | 127 (24.3%) |
| Other | 84 (16.1%) |
| Difficulty with questions | |
| Discrete choice experiment questions were hard to answer | 146 (27.0%) |
| Time trade-off questions were hard to answera | 131 (49.2%) |
| Willingness-to-pay questions were hard to answerb | 94 (34.2%) |
a
N = 266 because only half the sample were randomized to TTO.
b
N = 275 because only half the sample were randomized to WTP.